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228 John Coriolan

and hurriedly wrapped his towel around himself.
What to say? “Thank you”? “Drop in again some time”?
“Was it what you expected?”
Forrest Lawton evidently considered any words at all
superfluous, also the barest smile of satiety, appreciation
or complicity; he simply backed away, opened the door and
left poor ol’ Blair feeling slightly be wildered, somewhat
amused and somehow a little elated too. He had been used,
but he wasn’t indignant at all. He had been brought down
from ridiculous fantasy to rather commonplace facts. He
had had a mild little adventure. He supposed he should
feel grateful. The young tennis player had undoubtedly
been given hints about Ron Blair’s proclivities and activi-
ties. He’d come up, curious, maybe a little bored, to find
out for himself. He knew he was attractive to faggots;
perhaps he even considered he would be doing the Wooly
Blair a favor, giving him a treat, a mercy fuck. He’d cum.
He’d had his dick well and truly sucked. He’d gone.That
was that. Life would go on as before for both of them, no
harm done, nothing much changed. Forrest Lawton very
likely had allowed quite a few faggots to suck his cock,
as long as they didn’t suck and tell. He’d heard too, along
with the rest, that the Wooly Blair was discreet.
Taking Forrest Lawton’s unsmiling silence and abrupt
departure as tacit insistence that Blair keep on being
discreet, Blair decided not to mention anything about For-
rest Lawton’s surprise visit to Phil and Gary or to Roger
Allen or anyone else. At best it wasn’t much of a story and
why deprive them of the fun of going on imagining how
wonderful sex would be with the striking tennis player?
Blair might write his lust-object’s surprising appearance
at his door into some story, complete with the immediately
removed towel and the un ambiguous step over to Blair.
The only really interesting aspect of the episode was For-
rest Lawton’s ghostlike silence, although there was no one

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